Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-11-26
THE LOUISIANA RIOTS.
Thirty Negroes Believed 10 Have Been
Killed During the shooting.

special from New orleans. November %. to tht
Philadelphia PrssS says: quiet prevails In Thibo
deaux to-day, but the town Is stil thoroughly
guarded senrrfes being stationed on all the road.
leading 90 It, There are stiil very few negroes In
ThfbNteaux. Two Of the leaders, EnOch Adam.
and : IIorlon " q ans. returned to town to-day
poSse OF cttzsus started after them and they fed
Later on Wtllilms returned by an unfrequepted
WAY, and calling on the sheriff, asked TO be- taker
into custody and protected This was refused
him. oD the ground that there was no charge
The w0ois around Thibodeaux are SIN full Of
negroes who are afraid TO come In. The military
visited the neiShboring plantations this morning
and found The negroes generally at work, but sti
O1ily deinoraltZed The planters report that In
consequence ~ the strike and riot they have lost
onstnIJ ,n =. sneI crop Inc military also In
b0,iieS Three dead negroes were found this after
noon In a thieket on Mr. Aliens Rienge plantation,
on the other side Of the bayou They had evidently
b,-n shot In the disturbance Wednesday, and
crtwlcd into the tbicket To die there. The dis
cOyery Oh other bodies at a distance from the
Scene OF TIE battle renders IL probable that the
nunber OF the killed or those who have died from
their wounds has reached thirty OF whom eleven
W Twelve were Killed In the town and the re-
Llinuer dieti IA The woods or on the plantations.
THE KNIGHTS ATTITUDE.
The action OF the District Assembly OF the
knights OF Labor OF louisiana, in the Patterson
vile matter, shows that the negro has now a
Trend and sympathiZeT in the South Who Is likely
and Ia preventing violence. The nights OF Labor,
who are very powerful in New orleans, and com
nIdnd mucn political influence, have not heSltated
10 dennunce In strong and Vigorous terms the
knling % the negroes at PHtteTsOnviile, and have
announced their intention OF finding the whole
truth of that AFFAIR and laying Il before Congress
and the country. on November , I'VE or the lead
Ing cuiCred men In ~. Mary parish were killed Dy
q sheriff. posse. There we're, as usual, many con-
actorJ versions ol the l some 70 t t1
others that She shooting be-an from the mistaken
idea that an ATTACK was 70 H. made and again thaI
Tie n'srvs Killed were under arrest anu were shos
while irving 70 ESCAPE: indeed, IO TWO versions OF
the Il lT agreed In any particular.
Az INVESTIGATION TO BE MADE
The knights OF Labor evidently took no stock In
any % the stories OF neSro aggression, for the
district assembly Ot this city adopted resolutions
strongly denunCtatOTy OF those engaged In the
killing Xprs.in- this opinion: That the sheriff >
I=s-, barAci by state troops, killed four or more
o. thr lIDpTers without provocatlgn, while the
latter Wrr,. under arrest and we believe that the
llwles. destruction of human hie by the armed
force employed was assassination, and We pro-
LO4nre against 10. and demand that the legally
constituted duthuritirs by the process Of the law
Thoroughly Investigate thr Killing o! the labOrerS
40 FsttrT-onvlll. and bring the slayerS before the
bar "a Justice IuT such punishment as they may be
deserving ~. The district assembly further re-
-sVe,i 10 appeal 10 the millions OF wOrkinymen 10
IN AZ the hands OF Congress, 10 repeal the duties
slIr which VIII, Ia the end, bring the planters
20 >s-use II justice and OF the rights OF Others,
and b-utn u The whole people OF the United states
The last resolutions asking for the repeal OF the
sIl-.ir duty. was a OOmhshell which has caused
great excitement throughout the sugar district.
The Knights q Labor have been rOundly abused
fUr the tiOn they TOOK In this matter and great
pressure has been eNeTted TO force them 10 with
draw from u; but they have refused Co do so. A
Quantities has been appointed To investigate the
FLtteTnsunVllle affair thoroughly, 10 report on 10
and, ~ ne cssary, TO present the matter TO the
country. IL Il, perhaps, significant fact that,
since the Publication OF this manifesto, the sugar
painters Ia ~. Mary, IN which parish the town Of
the Increase In wages asked for by the negro hands
which they had formerly refused, their refusal
giving rse 10 the strike and the exciting condition
OI fairs which eliminated Ill the PatternSonyille
Killing